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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – An essentially suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union requires that Turkey take back 1,450 migrants being held in detention centers after their asylum applications were rejected.
Migration minister Notis Mitarachis said that's part of the agreement that worked to slow the flow of refugees and migrants Turkey let human traffickers keep sending to Greece islands after they had gone to Turkey in hopes of reaching the European Union.
After the EU closed its borders to them, Greece was left holding about 100,000, including more than 30,000 on islands, most wanting asylum after the path out of the country was blocked to them.
Mitarchis spoke as as hundreds of anti-racism campaigners demonstrated in Athens, with many calling for refugees to be allowed to stay in Greece. He told Agence France-Presse that that Turkey must demonstrate its "willingness to cooperate" with the EU which paid Turkey to contain refugees and migrants.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
HONOLULU — The Hawaii attorney general's office must pay attorney fees for using last year's Maui wildfire tragedy to file a petition in “bad faith” that blamed a state court judge for a lack of water for firefighting, Hawaii's Supreme Court ruled.
Allman Brothers Band co-founder and legendary guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80 Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin’ man.
NEW YORK — New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
ATHENS - The special 'Easter Basket,' which offers traditional Easter foods at lower or unchanged prices, will come into effect from April 24 to May 4.